Political Sermons of the American Founding Era: 1730–1805: In Two Volumes

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This book is published by Liberty Fund, Inc., a foundation established to encourage smdy ofthe ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. The cuneiform inscription that serves as our logo and as the design motif for our endpapers is the earliest-known written appearance ofthe word "freedom" (amagi), or "liberty." It is taken from a clay document written about 23oo B.c. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.© I998 by Liberty Fund, Inc. Foreword© I99I by Ellis Sandoz All rights reserved Printed in the United States ofAmerica Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Political sermons ofthe American founding era, I73o-I8o5 / edited by Ellis Sandoz.- 2nd ed. p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN o-86597-I8I-I (set: pbk.).- ISBN o-86597-I76-5 (vo!. I :hardcover). -ISBN o-86597-I79-x (vol. I: pbk.).- ISBN o-86597-I77-3 (vol. 2 :hardcover). -ISBN o-86597-I8o-3 (vol. 2: pbk.).- ISBN o-86597-I78-I (set: hardcover) 1. Christianity and politics-United States-Sermons. 2. United StatesPolitics and government-Sermons. 3· Sermons-American. I. Sandoz, Ellis, I93I- . BRIIJ.P7P53 I998 261.7'0973'o9o33-dc2I 97-40986 Liberty Fund, Inc. 8335 Allison Pointe Trail, Suite 300 Indianapolis, Indiana 4625o-r684 C IO 9 8 7 6 5 P IO 9 8 7 6 5 4 To the Pulpit, the Puritan Pulpit, we owe the moral force which won our independence. John Wingate Thornton This principle, that a whole nation has a right to do whatever it pleases, cannot in any sense whatever be admitted as true. The eternal and immutable laws of justice and morality are paramount to all human legislation. The violation of those laws is certainly within the power of a nation, but it is not among the rights of nations. John Quincy Adams ...